Friday 17 July 2015

IIT, NIT admissions: Third round of seat allocation to begin tomorrow


IIT, NIT admissions 2015

The third round of seat allocation for admissions to IITs and NITs is scheduled to begin tomorrow. The process will take place online at the official site of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), www.josaa.nic.in.
The third round of seat allotment is scheduled to begin at 10 am on July 18.
Up till now, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have emerged as the most popular courses amongst the students. These are followed by Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering as the most sought-after courses. And IIT Bombay has been the first choice for most students, once again.
On the first day itself the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) online portal saw 58,000 students completing the registration process, they filled in almost 21 lakh choices for the same. Out of these, about 13 lakh students registered for admission to IITs, filling in 5.6 lakh choices.

After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) submitted the JEE Main ranks to the National Informatics Centre, it merged the statistics with JEE Advanced data on June 30. By the next day afternoon approximately 20,000 candidates had registered for admissions.
This delay in the registration process will also push back the academic year by a week. It is likely that few classes will be conducted over the weekend so that the students are able to complete their first year on time.
The delay was caused because CBSE had not announced the JEE Main 2015 Paper 1 and Paper 2 ranks as scheduled.
There are a total of 87 participating institutes, 17 are Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 31 are National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 18 are Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 18 are Go

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